Sleeping Through the Night

Abraham: For the last eight nights in a row (and counting), bro' and I have slept through the entire night. Mommy and Daddy think that is very cool. I'm a little anxious about it though because I must be missing out on some fun stuff by sleeping so much.

Mommy wanted me to tell everyone to not freak out about this picture - both Koh and I like putting our little blankies on our faces when we go to sleep, and yes, we can still breathe.

Our 1st Father's Day

Koh: For Daddy's first Father's Day, we did what he loves best - spent the day hiking together as a family. Grandma was even there. In fact, she led the hike for her hiking club, the Chemeketans. It was our longest hike yet, about 8 miles and we were all pretty tired when we finished.

Every morning Daddy leaves to go to work on his bike (this is the saddest part of the day for us). He needed a backpack to carry his work clothes and stuff, so Mommy helped us get one for him as a gift. We also picked out a book called The Dangerous Book for Boys. It has all kinds of fun stuff inside, like; how to make a bow and arrow, making crystals, cloud formations, secret inks, skipping stones, insects, fossils, building a go-cart, timers and tripwires, the Declaration of Independence, how to play stickball and lots more. We can't wait for Daddy to teach us everything, especially the chapter on girls!

Baby Bach

Koh: Grandma visited us again this week. We love it when she does. She brought a piano music book with great kids' songs and let us play while sitting on her lap. Abraham wasn't that interested. He likes to "sing", or at least that what Grandma calls it - Mommy calls it squealing and it can get really loud. But me, I liked playing the piano, especially Three Blind Mice.

You lookin' at you?

Koh: Mom and Dad think we only smile at them. But we smile at everyone! Look here... we even smile at these little twin babies that came over to visit today. Boy we hope to see them again sometime!

Telling us apart

Koh: Since we're fraternal twins, we don't look alike. But sometimes it can be hard to tell us apart and we know people get embarassed to have to ask who is who. So Abe and I worked up this list of things you can use to help figure it out. Can you tell who is who in the pictures?

Koh = Mellow. Zen boy. Heavier. Thunder thighs. Budda belly. Had dark hair at birth, lost it and new stuff looks dark blonde. Brilliant blue eyes. Mom's short toes. 17 lbs, 26"

Abraham = Often fussy. Squirmer. Arching back. Quick to smile. Eyes light up. Laughs out loud. Had blonde hair at birth, but now it looks reddish. Darker blue eyes, tending towards hazel lately. Slightly upturned nose. Daddy's longer toes. 15 lbs, 25.5"

guess who?

Here Doggie Doggie

Koh: Another weekend, another hike. Actually Mommy and Daddy wanted to sleep in and lounge around the house, but Abraham and I dragged them outside, to the Columbia River Gorge, for another glorious hike. This time it was Dog Mountain in Washington. It is prime wildflower time there, so we got to see lots of pretty colors. We took a couple breaks so bro' and I could rest our rear-ends (they get tired of sitting in those front packs for five hours) and we all got to eat lunch. We saw our first snake too. It was a rattlesnake and it was right in the middle of the trail. Daddy wanted to get close to take a picture, but Mommy wouldn't let him since I was hanging on the front of him. There were lots of other people hiking too and Mommy said she felt like she was in a freak show the way people kept oohing and ahhing over twins on a big hike. She's just going to have to get used to it, because Abraham and I are sooo adorable and people want to look at and touch us. Surf to the whole photo journal of the day: http://picasaweb.google.com/markseker/DogMountainJune07

G Wiz

Abraham: If you've noticed the diaper count at the top of the blog, you know that my brother and I go a lot. Mom and Dad do not like adding all those diapers to our landfills since they can take up to 500 years to disintegrate, so they've been testing out these g diapers. They are environmentally-friendly and flushable. Dad says we have old pipes so we can't flush them but we can compost the wet-only ones. And it takes up to 120 days for the more-than-wet-only ones to completely disappear in the landfill. Pretty nice for the planet, I think.


How's it going? Koh and I are pretty good at blowouts and Mom and Dad aren't very good yet with installing these new diapers. Mom bought a big supply so they are still trying. At least they are really cute on us!